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Canonical Runge-Kutta methods

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In the present note we provide a complete characterization of all Runge-Kutta methods which generate a canonical transformation if applied to a Hamiltonian system of ordinary differential equations.

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Lasagni, F.M. Canonical Runge-Kutta methods. Z. angew. Math. Phys. 39, 952–953 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00945133

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